I have always love a good anthology series, whether the genre is horror, science fiction, fantasy... whatever, the original Twilight Zone is of course top of the mountain for me but I've loved everything from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, later Zones, The Outer Limits (both), Amazing Stories, Freddy's Nightmares, Tales From The Crypt, and I'm sure I'm leaving an all bunch out. One area though you would think would be pretty bland is the horror anthology aimed at children - which is not true at all with plenty of the stories they cover strong enough to make it on a more grown up show. The two that usually come to mind are Are You Afraid Of The Dark? and Goosebumps.
An Old Story is a third season episode, about two brothers whose weird and mysterious aunt feeds them prune cookies, which turns out is turning them old and their Auntie plans on selling them to a pair of old women.
While it's not my favourite of the Goosebumps episodes I have seen (though I haven't seen everyone) it's still a very fun episode, the make up is absolutely fantastic (unless they got old men who look like the boys) and there is a very fun ending.
Overall, there is a reason this and Are You Afraid Of The Dark? are still held up in high regards that where kids in the 90s, fun then and fun now.
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